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Re:The Many Worlds of Hugh Everett by timcederman on Wednesday May 20, 2009 @04:18AM (#618258)
His son did a pretty great documentary on him, and happens to make some pretty fantastic music too.
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Re:The Many Worlds of Hugh Everett by jrandom on Wednesday May 20, 2009 @07:37PM (#619534)
I've never like the Multiple Worlds interpretation -- each bifurcation splits the entire universe and there are a stupendous number of bifurcations every nanosecond, resulting in a ridiculous number of universes made of energy and matter (which is also energy).

So... where does all that extra energy come from?

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Re:The Many Worlds of Hugh Everett by RiderOfGiraffes on Wednesday May 20, 2009 @05:06AM (#618285)
Link to a single page version:

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=hugh-everet...

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Re:The Many Worlds of Hugh Everett by rms on Wednesday May 20, 2009 @06:04AM (#618306)
Which annoyingly only works with the proper referrer.
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Re:The Many Worlds of Hugh Everett by RiderOfGiraffes on Wednesday May 20, 2009 @07:23AM (#618356)
Bother.

Oh well, I tried. Sorry.

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Re:The Many Worlds of Hugh Everett by lisper on Wednesday May 20, 2009 @02:50AM (#618213)
http://rondam.blogspot.com/2009/04/on-shadow-photons-and-rea...
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Re:The Many Worlds of Hugh Everett by danbmil99 on Wednesday May 20, 2009 @01:56AM (#618162)
keep in mind, world lines merge too
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Re:The Many Worlds of Hugh Everett by lisper on Wednesday May 20, 2009 @02:51AM (#618215)
Really? How?
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Re:The Many Worlds of Hugh Everett by cousin_it on Wednesday May 20, 2009 @11:21AM (#618678)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elitzur-Vaidman_bomb-tester
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Re:The Many Worlds of Hugh Everett by lisper on Wednesday May 20, 2009 @01:14PM (#618884)
Sorry, I don't see any world lines merging there. Can you elaborate?
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Re:The Many Worlds of Hugh Everett by cousin_it on Wednesday May 20, 2009 @07:37PM (#619532)
No. On sober thought I can't even understand what it would mean for world lines to merge. Sorry.
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Re:The Many Worlds of Hugh Everett by lisper on Wednesday May 20, 2009 @11:38PM (#619834)
No worries. It actually is possible in principle for world lines to merge because all quantum interactions are in principle reversible. But the odds are so small as to be effectively indistinguishable from zero.
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